January 11, 2007

The raid on the Iranian consulate

Foreign
embassies and diplomatic outposts are legally the foreign soil of the
country represented. We invaded Iran. This is an act of war.

It is hard to avoid the conclusion that Bush is trying to provoke war with Iran:

But
what's most troubling about this is the transparency of what Bush is up
to. He's trying to provoke a war with Iran, either by forcing Iran to
strike back, or by discovering secret Iranian diplomatic documents that
would prove their complicity in helping the insurgents in Iraq. . . . This is an act of war.

Something I hadn't thought about: our diplomats are now much more at risk:

Bush
may have just given every country in the world justification for
attacking US diplomats, attacking US diplomatic posts and embassies,
and taking our diplomats hostage.

We have violated international law--once again.

Bush is playing with fire, and playing with the lives of millions of people. The consequences of a military confrontation with Iraq are potentially extremely serious. The failure in Iraq ought to give Bush, his administration, the neocons, and all fans of Empire serious pause, but they seem undeterred.

It is absolutely crucial that people--officeholders and ordinary citizens alike--be made aware of how dangerously close Bush is bringing us to the brink.